Quotes by Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself…

Gatekeepers

Internet

Talent

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don’t appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn’t appear until 2000.

Cartoon

Months

Records

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it’s a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

Cartoonist

Creative

Process

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had.

Fields

Levels

Understood

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That’s true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

Groups

Laughter

People

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I’m a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn’t funny I’d be kicked right out the door.

Doors

Helping

Persons

I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he’s a regular-sized guy, but he’s the size of the island. He’s saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

Guy

Islands

Men

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I’m going to stop here.

Married

Three

Three Times

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don’t think power’s been listening, incidentally.

Listening

Thinking

Want

I think The New Yorker’s cartoons aren’t very political because the people who do the cartoons aren’t awfully political people, and they aren’t paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That’s what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I’m also sort of happy that I don’t do them because I’d hate to have to label things and I’d especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.

Hate

People

Thinking

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Fields

Gatekeepers

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Guilt

Guy

Harder

Hate

Helping

Horse

Interesting

Internet

Islands

Kind

Laughter

Levels

Listening

Looks

Married

Mean

Men

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Mouths

People

Persons

Phones

Problem

Process

Records

Shut Up

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Three

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Quotes by Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself…

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don’t appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn’t appear until 2000.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it’s a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had.

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That’s true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I’m a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn’t funny I’d be kicked right out the door.

I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he’s a regular-sized guy, but he’s the size of the island. He’s saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I’m going to stop here.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don’t think power’s been listening, incidentally.

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